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When I was a graduate student in the United States, I followed several scientific Wechat official accounts that focused on selecting and translating newly published journal articles into Chinese. When they called for contributors, I tried submitting some my translations. Then I found that I always missed some details when I was just reading the papers. But for precise translation, I was forced to scrutinize each and every word, which helped me a lot in my research. And I also started enjoying the thinking process of converting languages, and translation became my hobby.

When I was 11, I came across a careers book in my school library on working as an interpreter for the EU. I was totally fascinated by the fact that there could be all of these people working together in different languages for a common good. I decided there and then that I wanted to be a translator.